The $1.09 billion IBM Southeast Employees’ Credit Union (IBMSECU), is pleased to announce Shred Days at four of their South Florida branches during the month of April 2018. The 2017 Identity Fraud Study, released by Javelin Strategy & Research, found that $16 billion was stolen from 15.4 million U.S. consumers in 2016, compared with $15.3 billion and 13.1 million victims a year earlier. In the past six years identity thieves have stolen over $107 billion.
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Locations and dates of the Shred Days are as follows:
St. Lucie West Branch
2100 NW Courtyard Circle Port St. Lucie, FL 34986
Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Delray Beach Branch
1000 NW 17th Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33445
Wednesday, April 11 2018, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Boca Raton Branch
790 Park of Commerce Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33487
Thursday, April 12, 2018, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Palm Beach Gardens Branch
5070 PGA Blvd., Suite 100., Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
Friday, April 13, 2018, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
MicroShred LLC, a non-affiliated, third-party service provider of IBMSECU will be on site to safely dispose of financial and personal documents. The event will help Members and non-members free up space, eliminate unnecessary theft and security risks, and give them an opportunity to get rid of old, outdated, and useless files. IBMSECU will have experts on site to answer your ID Theft and fraud questions as well as provide free Credit Monitoring and ID Theft/Fraud Protection materials to attendees. Free refreshments will be served. Giveaways and more at each Shred Day event. Also, this is an opportunity to donate to your local food bank. Help us help those in need by donating non-perishable food during each Shred Day event.
Members and non-members are encouraged to bring up to ten boxes of paper documents. For a list of accepted materials please visit the “Upcoming Events” page on our website.
Michael Miller, CEO of IBMSECU, stated that hosting free, ID Theft protection events and providing information to our Members and the communities we serve is very important to us. “We are very excited to provide this opportunity to our Members and the community to purge personal documents. This free event could possibly protect them from identity theft.”